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The MIL Corporation (MIL) has been awarded the five-year contract valued at $57.3M with a place of performance in St. Inigoes, Maryland. MIL's winning team includes five subcontractors: AV3; By Light; EMW; iDirect Government Technologies; and Zekiah Technologies.

Zekiah integrated video feeds, radars, data recorders, navigation systems, and other mission critical systems in real time to enable a single shipboard personnel with a single console to manage LaWS. System went out for testing on the USS Ponce in August and is now approved as an operational asset.

The U.S. Navy has deployed on a command ship in the Persian Gulf its first laser weapon capable of destroying a target.

The amphibious transport ship USS Ponce has been patrolling with a prototype 30-kilowatt-class Laser Weapon System since late August, according to officials. The laser is mounted facing the bow, and can be fired in several modes -- from a dazzling warning flash to a destructive beam -- and can set a drone or small boat on fire.